Ed Nisley wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 12:44 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > >> Every numeric value is preceded by a letter telling what it is. >> > > Except in the wonderful world of RepRap, wherein they're now > (contemplating?) dual-extruder "G-Code" with multiple numeric values > after the E axis to mix / simultaneously extrude multiple materials: > > I believe that is a serious enough departure from RS274-D that you can no longer call it G-code. > http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code#M160:_Number_of_mixed_materials > > The E axis must then absorb a linear "distance" of filament, plus the > mix fractions for each material. > > The RepRap dialect seems to be diverging fairly rapidly from what the > LinuxCNC parser understands; in particular, their myriad M codes look > like a problem. > EMC diverged from strict RS274-D in a couple places. I think the comments are compliant, but the way all the in-line arithmetic and use of variables work is probably not compliant. But, then, there really was no good structure for that functionality anyway.
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